Groups.io provides people who share common interests with an ad-free platform for communicating with each other through email groups and group websites.

Three levels of plans are available in Groups.io: Free, Premium (paid), and Enterprise (paid). Free groups provide only functions related to sending, storing, and managing messages. Premium and Enterprise groups provide additional collaboration features such as calendars, databases, and wikis.

Those who want to create and run a group in Groups.io can:

• Have a free group with basic message functions or opt for a paid plan that provides additional features.
• Create an announcement-only, moderated, or restricted group, or a group with other combinations of settings.
• Customize member notices such as welcome, goodbye, and pending member messages as well as monthly reminders and guidelines.
• Designate multiple owners and moderators using Groups.io’s full permissions system.
• Monitor the group through an activity log, and receive email or web/app notifications (or both) about group activity.
• Track email delivery to group members.
• Approve or reject messages from moderated members either through the group’s website or by email.
• Automatically moderate or lock individual group topics after a set number of days.
• Set up hashtags to control and organize messages in the group’s archive.
• In paid groups, create a wiki for storing group knowledge.
• In paid groups, control access to and use of the group’s web-based collaboration features:
  • Calendar
  • Chats (similar to chat rooms on other platforms)
  • Databases
  • Files
  • Photos
  • Polls
  • Wiki

For more information about the features and benefits of Groups.io, see the Features page on the Groups.io website.

Note: If you are looking to move content to Groups.io from another platform, refer to the Moving to Groups.io wiki page in the GroupManagersForum group on Groups.io. That group’s wiki and message archive are open for anyone to read—even those who do not have a Groups.io account.